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Sam Seder interviews Chris Hayes of “The Nation” on his piece called “System Failure”. Obama and Rahm have chosen to play their “inside game” and not the “outside game. Liberals are caught in a dilemma. By playing within the corrupt system, it further entrenches that corruption and elevates the oligarchs. What’s a lefty to do?

Dr. Margaret Flowers challenges the Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt on why he advocated a single payer health care system for Taiwan, but not for the U.S. This continues my series on uppity women like Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Marcy Wheeler, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein, Nomi Prins, etc. speaking truth to powerful men.

This is a story via Alexander Cockburn about how The Teamsters stopped yet another destruction of a company by “bondholders” who use credit default swaps to bet against the health of a company. The Teamsters Beat Back the Vampire Squid.

Today We the People and Taxpayers were robbed of Time’s “Person of the Year”. We, who saved America by saving the banks, got gypped. Instead Ben Bernanke, the failed Fed chairman was given that honor.

In “The Shock Doctrine” Naomi Klein chronicles what she could find out about the 1985 election in Bolivia which led to Chicago School of Economics “shock therapy” for the people of Bolivia. Is that what is happening here?

The only liberal call in Talk Radio Show in Montana will end its five year run today. We will be replaced by three hours of Tea Bag Bonkerhood. Then even they will get replaced by national nut bars.

Di and Dave on “The Edge” Talk Radio in Bozeman, Montana interview Matt Taibbi and asks him lots of questions with help from the listeners.

In his 2005 book, “Spanking the Donkey”, Matt Taibbi called Democrats “money junkies”. They keep asking us to trust them by giving them our votes and they promise they’ll fix stuff like health care. On our weekly radio show Saturday, October 31, Matt Taibbi will be our guest and we will ask him what we should do next.

Kevin Zeese, activist lawyer, warns the Democrats of big losses if they pass any old health care bill. Kevin was interviewed on “Left Jab” on Sirius Left talk radio on Sunday.

Advocates for national health care plan whether it’s called “single payer” or “Medicare for all” are politely told they are delusional. Now even public option people are being marginalized. Don’t we know that all things good come slowly and incrementally. So we should get in line. But just who is delusional? Perhaps we have different tasks in this fight for civil rights and economic justice. Perhaps it is not time yet to throw in the towel by throwing the game.